George Clooney to Star in Good Night time, and Good Luck Broadway Present

George Clooney will star as legendary newsman Edward R. Murrow in a Broadway adaptation of Good Night time, and Good Luck.

Clooney wrote, directed and starred within the 2005 historic drama about Murrow’s protection of Senator Joseph McCarthey’s anti-communist tribunals within the Nineteen Fifties. The movie was nominated for six Academy Awards, together with Finest Image and Finest Director.

Twenty years later, Clooney and co-screenwriter Grant Heslov have reunited to convey the story to stage. David Cromer will direct the manufacturing, which can debut subsequent spring at a Shubert Theatre.

Whereas Clooney portrayed CBS Information correspondent Joseph Weshba within the unique movie, he’ll step into the function of Murrow himself for the upcoming Broadway adaptation. For Clooney, the efficiency will mark his Broadway debut. “I’m honored, in spite of everything these years, to be coming again to the stage and particularly, to Broadway, the artwork kind and the venue that each actor aspires to,” he mentioned in an announcement.

“Edward R. Murrow operated from a sort of ethical readability that feels vanishingly uncommon in in the present day’s media panorama,” Cromer added in his personal assertion. “There was an immediacy in these early stay tv broadcasts that in the present day can solely be successfully captured on stage, in entrance of a stay viewers.”